In the course of the start and development of human literature, children's literature differentiated and began to exist in an independent form, because it has some characteristics which make it different from adult literature.
So far, writers of this kind of literature and theorists of literary arts had failed to scientifically clarify the essential content of its characteristics, although they had claimed that it has different characteristics from adult literature.
There had been only piecemeal discussions that children's literature, unlike adult one, should be written with the main stress on their life and in easy words to understand.
This question, the solution of which the history of the development of literary arts had been waiting for, was completely solved only by the Juche-oriented theory of literary arts.
Chairman
This is different from the methodology of studying by the researchers of the theory of literary arts so far, and it is a scientific one which can give the most correct clarification of the essential characteristics of children's literature.
Chairman
"Children's literature creates an artistic image for children from their point of view. Its characteristics find expression in its approach of representation rather than in the objects it represents. Its basic feature is that it approaches, appreciates and depicts man and his life from the children's point of view."
His theory is the most justifiable Juche-oriented theory of literary arts that scientifically elucidates the essential characteristics of children's literature.
The validity of this theory can be found, first of all, in the fact that the basic characteristics of children's literature were clarified from the viewpoint of the correlation between the writer and life.
How the writer reflects life in his own way is the most common principle of revealing the essential characteristics of each type of literature.
And this has been so far the criterion for exploring the characteristics of various forms and genres of literature.
For example, the characteristics of literary works of lyric, descriptive and dramatic describing method were mostly found in this way.
The criterion for correctly revealing the basic characteristics of children's literature cannot be excepted from this general principle.
You must clarify the difference between each type of literature belonging to children's literature in view of the characteristics of the writer's reflection of the reality. Likewise, when it comes to exploring the characteristics of children's literature, you must proceed from these characteristics.
This is the most correct Juche-oriented approach to clarifying the essence of problems, in which the writer, the motive force of creative work, stands in the center.
Its basic feature is that it approaches, appreciates and depicts man and his life from the children's point of view. However, that does not mean that this literature must deal only with children as heroes.
Although this is a principle requirement, adults can sometimes be set as heroes.
But, in that case, the adults are not described as grown-up persons as they are, but as those from children's point of view.
This means that the writers of children's literature can regard children or adults as principal characters and in both cases, he approaches, appreciates and depicts from children's point of view.
As a result, this literature has its own peculiar characteristics that makes it undeniably different from adult one.
The validity of this Juche-oriented theory can also be found in the fact that it provides children's literature with the most correct methodology for creating works in conformity with the age and psychological characteristics of children.
The creating of a literary work can be called the process of the writer's understanding, analyzing and judging the objective reality and reproducing it with artistic description.
A writer with a high degree of political sense will grasp life with such an insight and correctly distinguish the essential elements from it, and one with rich emotions will have the characteristics of understanding and expressing life in an emotional way.
Similarly, a writer who sees life from an adult point of view will create a work in keeping with the aesthetic tastes of adults, and a writer who sees life from a child's point of view will reflect the age and psychological characteristics of children in his work.
This is why writers who create children's literary works always need to approach, appreciate and depict life from children's point of view.
Only when man and his life come in sight of a child and is experienced from his point of view, it can be a life that embodies the child's age and psychological characteristics in a proper way.
This shows that the objective reality, however good and meaningful it may be, can hardly be an object of description of children's literature, if it is absolutely difficult to understand with the level of consciousness and aesthetic feelings of children.
Indeed, this theory is a new Juche-oriented one of literary arts that clarifies the most essential features that can distinguish children's literature from adult literature.
This clarification broadened the scope of life reflected in children's literature and diversified its contents, and our children's literature was provided with a valuable theoretical guideline for developing more rapidly into children's literature of Korean style that meets the requirements of the Juche era.
